To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
nuke it until there is no one left and the radiation turn it into a de facto natural reserve like Chernobyl
I’ve played Rebel Inc, so I know how to do it.
Don’t bribe too many people. Build infrastructure and social programmes. Train local forces to destroy all insurrections.
In my experience it takes more funding than you have to keep the population at ease.
Occupy it, commit war crimes, take its oil, then leave when it’s politically/financially advantageous.
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Just fucking leave, but tell them no dictatorships this time or I’ll come back and fuck them up again.
“Just like, you know, behave and whatnot, or we’ll invade again. K, byeeeee!”
-President Fartswithanaccent